2010 F1 testing live: 19th February
Fernando Alonso gets down to work on a dry track
Most of the team will swap their drivers for today’s test and early indications are the weather will be kinder to them today.
Join us below to find out how the teams get on in their tenth day of testing.
Times from today’s test
| Driver | Car | Best time | Laps | Difference |
| Mark Webber | Red Bull-Renault RB6 | 79.299 | 115 | 0 |
| Fernando Alonso | Ferrari F10 | 80.115 | 132 | 0.816 |
| Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes MP4-25 | 80.394 | 101 | 1.095 |
| Nico Hülkenberg | Williams-Cosworth FW32 | 81.432 | 138 | 2.133 |
| Michael Schumacher | Mercedes W01 | 81.437 | 79 | 2.138 |
| Robert Kubica | Renault R30 | 81.916 | 100 | 2.617 |
| Adrian Sutil | Force India-Mercedes VJM03 | 81.939 | 69 | 2.64 |
| Kamui Kobayashi | BMW Sauber-Ferrari C29 | 82.228 | 28 | 2.929 |
| Jaime Alguersuari | Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR5 | 82.564 | 120 | 3.265 |
| Lucas di Grassi | Virgin-Cosworth VR-01 | 83.504 | 34 | 4.205 |
| Heikki Kovalainen | Lotus-Cosworth T127 | 83.521 | 68 | 4.222 |
Testing notes
The poor weather continues to be the main story at Jerez as the teams struggle to complete as much dry running as they can in the increasingly rare breaks between showers.
Lotus have some ground to make up today after losing a lot of time yesterday after Heikki Kovalainen crashed and a replacement from wing was not available. The team were expecting to receive one overnight.
Today’s testing line-up
McLaren MP4-25 – Jenson Button
Mercedes W01 – Michael Schumacher
Red Bull RB6 – Mark Webber
Ferrari F10 – Fernando Alonso
Williams FW32 – Nico Hülkenberg
BMW Sauber C29 – Kamui Kobayashi
Renault R30 – Robert Kubica
Force India VJM03 – Adrian Sutil
Toro Rosso STR5 – Jaime Alguersuari
Virgin VR-01 – Lucas di Grassi
Lotus T127 – Heikki Kovalainen
The track: Circuito de Jerez
The teams are testing at the Circuito de Jerez, formerly the home of the Spanish (1986-1990) and European Grands Prix (1994 and 1997):
Eight of this year’s pre-season test days will take place at this circuit. Last week Lewis Hamilton set a best time of 1’19.583 at the track.
Live Tweets and times
You can find live times from the track on this site.
Here’s the latest Tweets from people at the track (plus me):
If you would like to suggest a Twitter feed to add to the list, please name them in the comments. The list only updates when this page is refreshed.
2010 F1 testing
- F1 testing pictures: 18th February
- 2010 F1 testing live: 18th February
- F1 testing in pictures: 17th February
- 2010 F1 testing live: 17th February
- Who’s fast and who’s not? A closer look at the lap times from Jerez testing
- Jerez test 1 statistics
- F1 testing pictures: 13th February
- F1 testing live: 13th February
- F1 testing pictures: 12th February
- 2010 F1 testing live: 12th February
- F1 testing pictures: 11th February
- 2010 F1 testing live: 11th February
- F1 testing pictures: 10th February
- 2010 F1 testing live: 10th February
- F1 testing review: Valencia (Pictures)
- F1 testing pictures: February 3rd
- 2010 F1 testing: February 3rd
- F1 testing pictures: February 2nd
- 2010 F1 testing: February 2nd
- 2010 F1 testing: February 1st
Image (C) Mercedes
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 7:56
Here we go… pray for sunshine!!
Nick Someone said on 19th February 2010, 8:09
I hope it’s mostly dry today. It’s hard to work out what’s going on when it’s dry, and its almost impossible when its wet.
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I’m interested in Heikki Kovalainen’s crash yesterday. Was it his mistake as he said? Was it the car being hard to drive because they hadn’t gotten the throttle maps and stuff right? Was it because he was expecting the downforce level of a Mclaren and he had X % less downforce that last years Mclaren?
I’m beginning to really route for these little new teams because it all seems so very hard.
Adam Cooper seems to have the inside track on what’s going on with Campos and USF1:
http://adamcooperf1.com/2010/02/18/will-lopezcampos-deal-be-confirmed-soon/
Rum and Coke said on 19th February 2010, 12:05
are you a policeman? #:)
Mariusz said on 19th February 2010, 8:13
POLE on the POLE! ! ! Eh Sorry, I’m so excited . . .
Nick Someone said on 19th February 2010, 8:20
Looks like this is the link to the live timing for today from that Greek website:
http://www.msfree.gr/ms.php?id=10807
No times listed yet presumably because they are all doing installation laps.
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 8:24
Well… shumi with a 2:09… lol
Macca said on 19th February 2010, 8:25
I think this one is better.
http://live.autosport.com/
Nick Someone said on 19th February 2010, 8:31
No no no. :-) this one is the bees knees.
it updates live and if you click on the drivers name it gives you a list of the laps he has done and the times.
I didn’t find this site. Some other dude posted a link to it yesterday, or possibly the day before.
Yeah you can’t Google translate the timing bit because it’s Flash, but that’s irrelevant since numbers and names can be understood in any language.
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 8:33
true enough… I just have them both opened plus twitter so your covered in all angles.. :)
Oh… and this site of course.. :)
Nick Someone said on 19th February 2010, 8:34
yeah me too.
Remco H said on 19th February 2010, 8:53
Nice link…..checking it now. Session red flagged @ the moment.
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 8:23
dry running is a must… sure it’s always good to get wet weather data… but not all wet weather!.. it looks
promising today.. 8)
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 8:25
I tried to google translate that page and it doesn’t seem to work.. would be awesome to have that in english
costas said on 19th February 2010, 10:24
hello Bwells. msfree is using a system for autorefresh which creates problems to google translate. You could use the following link for english translation of the article but you will have to make the refresh for the times…
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msfree.gr%2Fincludes%2Fdetails.php%3Fid%3D10807&sl=el&tl=en
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 8:47
I see that Lotus is a firm believer in any press is good press… on there twitter account they just posted 4 articles about there crash yesterday.. lol.. and then Kovi stops on track.. :)
Nick Someone said on 19th February 2010, 9:16
I’m beginning to root for them because of it. All the major players in Lotus are using Twitter and they openly showed their diffuser at the launch. …wow.
…Although I assume that was because their car has no amazing features any other team would want to copy at this stage.
MacLeod said on 19th February 2010, 9:17
I think Force india has a problem they are not driving as much as it should. Yesterday they didn’t drove a lot either. engine problems or just electrical due the water?
MacLeod said on 19th February 2010, 9:34
Seems Sutil is driving again instead of Liuzzi. Keith
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 19th February 2010, 10:05
Thanks MacLeod – Force India changing their plans again.
Dev said on 19th February 2010, 10:27
since they expected weather to be dog, they ran di Resta yesterday.. as the weather forecast for today & tomorrow is good… hence all plans got modified… Sutil today Tonio tomorrow…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 19th February 2010, 9:21
Some new pics from yesterday’s test here, including the Lotus and Virgin: F1 testing pictures: 18th February
Derek said on 19th February 2010, 9:35
Jenson’s got off to a good start!
Ninjenius said on 19th February 2010, 9:46
Being a McLaren/Jenson it’s good to see him at the top of the timesheets for once! :D
But they’re all at least 5 seconds off the pace so plenty of room for improvement for everyone.
Apparently di Grassi may have struck a barrier a few minutes ago.
Ninjenius said on 19th February 2010, 9:48
*Mclaren/Jenson fan I mean…
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 9:52
Yes lot’s of room for improvement.. and that Virgin just can’t seem to keep it’s wings! I hope they have a spare today.. :)
Calum said on 19th February 2010, 14:02
They say “spare part X wont reach us until the evening, so no more testing.” Surely they could have sent over more than one spare component, when they know their car is going to break every day!
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 9:56
That green flag lasted all of a minute! How frustrating… do they know it’s 2am here and I should be sleeping!! lol…
Ninjenius said on 19th February 2010, 10:04
I know! There’s more red flags than a communist convention…
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 10:06
lol… looks like Kobayashi this time.. so you’re close!
Derek said on 19th February 2010, 9:58
I’m all for the British drivers, but mainly I just love F1 period!
m0tion said on 19th February 2010, 10:55
With a name like Derek you can only be for English drivers lol
Derek said on 19th February 2010, 11:38
Actually I’m Scottish!! But I’m a Hamilton fan and or any other British driver. If paul Di Rista starts winning then ………..?
Calum said on 19th February 2010, 14:09
Be quite good to see another Scot winning a race!
Ninjenius said on 19th February 2010, 10:00
Working 8:45 – 7:45 at my local library today (in case you didn’t guess, I’m a librarian funnily enough). Thank fully I have this and Live Autosport to keep me busy :D
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 10:04
Thankfully you have an internet connection.. :)
Ninjenius said on 19th February 2010, 10:12
Thankfully someone knows how to spell thankfully! Sometimes I wonder how I became a librarian…
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 10:26
lol… 8)
ajokay said on 19th February 2010, 10:04
Wow, they just keep on throwing these cars into the gravel, don’t they?
FLuidd said on 19th February 2010, 10:07
Can someone please explain me what’s this whole ordeal about Ferrari’s new chassis ?
bwells said on 19th February 2010, 10:14
Not totally sure… maybe it’s just the second one but they said there was some improvements.. but I know that Fernando’s going out on slicks so the times should drop.. :)
Tombong said on 19th February 2010, 10:14
Nothing is new. It’s exactly the same as the one they’ve used in Valencia
ajokay said on 19th February 2010, 10:33
I believe it’s just the 2nd of the 2 chassis they’ve built so far. Would be better to share the load between the two so that when they get to Bahrain, one driver isn’t in a car thats already racked thousands of testing miles when the other driver is in a brand spanking new tub.
Peter said on 19th February 2010, 10:52
No, this is the second chassis they are using. I do not know the differences.